Break Quote by Derek Walcott

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…

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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

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“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—…

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“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.”

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The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile…

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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his…

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My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then…

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“I am the man my father loved and was.”

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The thing that is believed is a reality.

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